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re: 1990s Highland Taco Bell
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:05 pm to DR93Berlin
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:05 pm to DR93Berlin
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Pretty sure Jose Vargas threw someone into a window at that Taco Bell and shattered it
Yep. Was coming to post this. Man he was fun to watch play and fight.
1983 I came out of the Bengal 2:00am and the bell didn’t ring when I drove over it at the Taco Bell drive through so I put my K5 Blazer in reverse and buried my trailer hitch through the radiator of a Datsun truck that had pulled in behind me.
We both got out, assessed the conundrum and pushed his leaky truck backwards into a parking spot. He jumped in my truck, we both ordered and I dropped him off at Kirby Smith with my insurance card. Next day called them and they took care of it.
True story and we are friends to this day.
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Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:07 pm to FatCatLSU
Don't know how I remember this, but it was called Pedro's Tacos around 1979. Don't know how long it stayed Pedro's Tacos.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:08 pm to FatCatLSU
I ate at that Taco Bell many times
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:17 pm to FatCatLSU
There was absolutely a Taco Bell right there. Had a gun put to my head there in 1998 while getting robbed as a dumbass college student.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:26 pm to billjamin
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I lived on that 2 dog and fry special for longer than i want to publicly admit.
So did I. I still remember that $1.89 super cheap price that made it so affordable to us poor college students.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:34 pm to Topwater Trout
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Rally's was across the street from circle k where smoothie king was.
Was originally a Fast Track burger joint before Rally's bought them out.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:39 pm to FatCatLSU
There was a Churches across from the Der Weinerschnitzel in the late 80s. We’d hit that up after some drinking at The Bengal. Huge pieces and the dirty rice was solid. One late night we were the last car served in the drive thru. Pulled into a parking spot and sat on the tailgate to eat. Couple of dudes in an Impala pulled up to us -they had struck out at the drive thru - and asked “how much you want for that bird?” We said not for sale. I would guess that if that happened today, they wouldn’t have asked for it.
This post was edited on 10/4/23 at 8:24 pm
Posted on 10/4/23 at 7:48 pm to MBclass83
the old pedros turned in to lyman whites wings, had good soul food there, kind of across the street from taco bell
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:12 pm to Monkeyboy
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Then it burned down. I was surprised it wasn't rebuilt.
It was starting to earn a reputation for motorists being held up in the drive-thru line. It truly seemed like just about every other male student in my classes at LSU had a story to tell of getting robbed in the Taco Bell drive-thru line the night before. Sounded to me like it could have been the same serial robber doing the hold-ups over and over again.
One night a few weeks before it burned down, there was a very bad hold-up INSIDE of the Taco Bell where I think that a bunch of patrons got robbed in addition to the cashier. The bad PR from that robbery seems to have scared off a lot of potential patrons, especially at night. Then the place burned down. Corporate headquarters decided not to reopen it, I'm guessing because of a decline of sales, but again I'm sure that if that were the case then the sales would have rebounded right back up again once the memories of the hold-up had faded away.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:18 pm to BK Lounge
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never once went to the Weinershcnitzel
You seem proud. You should be ashamed.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:19 pm to DR93Berlin
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and asked “how you want for that bird?”
Sounds kinky.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:24 pm to dukke v
Definitely a Taco Bell
Made a fortune off college students
Fire closed it and they never reopened
That area wasn’t any better back then
Made a fortune off college students
Fire closed it and they never reopened
That area wasn’t any better back then
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:25 pm to BK Lounge
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simply could not end a night out at Sports , or the Tiger, without gong all the way across campus to the Taco Bell .
The drive-thru line was quite the scene starting around 2am. Fairly often a driver would pass out in line, adding to the havoc.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:26 pm to billjamin
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I lived on that 2 dog and fry special for longer than i want to publicly admit.
2 chili dogs and a small fry for $1.98 at the Shitzel
the Highland Taco Bell was the go to when we were broke 90-94
two $.59 bean burritos with no onions, extra sauce was my standard order for drunk food
This post was edited on 10/4/23 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:27 pm to 777Tiger
quote:Pedro's Taco
there used to an independent, hole in the wall taco place there when I was at LSU
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:34 pm to Martini
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1983 I came out of the Bengal 2:00am and the bell didn’t ring when I drove over it at the Taco Bell drive through so I put my K5 Blazer in reverse and buried my trailer hitch through the radiator of a Datsun truck that had pulled in behind me.
You had me at K5 Blazer .
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Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:37 pm to DiamondDog
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What's the deal? They hate live music now?
When Glen was booking bands, it stayed pretty busy. Then, the guy who’d toured with Better than Ezra as their tour manager or whatever came in with a different approach for the venue and it started to tail off with cover bands and 80’s retro (thurs wasn’t a bad draw).
Those were the days, though. Sad hearing that it’s not bringing in a crowd like it used to. It was fun working there!
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:39 pm to nicholastiger
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Definitely a Taco Bell Made a fortune off college students Fire closed it and they never reopened
Then they must haven’t been making a fortune.
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That area wasn’t any better back then
It was, if anything, worse.
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:43 pm to FatCatLSU
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I was then subjected to much ridicule and heavy insults as everyone in the group claimed that I must have drunk away all of my memory cells because there was never a Taco Bell there.
I ate at that Taco Bell between Burger King and Wienerschnitzel on Highland all the time in the '90s. You could get 3 bean burritos for less than $2. I can verify it was there.
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Pretty sure The Bell was at the corner of State & Highland.
You're wrong. It was further down Highland headed toward downtown.
This post was edited on 10/4/23 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:52 pm to BK Lounge
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mean, we weren’t exactly starting the night out, planning around the fact that we’d eventually end up at Taco Bell around 2:30am.. were 18 yr old dumbasses
True. And no way were you missing $1 shots on Monday nights at Sports!
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